When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself